"The Dark Side"

I went to see Bond last night, and I was tempted to come back and write a post immediately...

**I will try not to spoil it for people who haven't seen it**

I loved it, it was gritty, vulnerable, almost real, and I did think in parts the cinematography was almost French Arthouse (one of my favourite genres of film) - I'm thinking the black and white beginning with flashbacks, and the point when Bond is vulnerable half way through the film you see it from inside his mind, it really made you believe it and get a lot more involved than the previous films.

I was also suitably impressed that they used the creator of Parkour, Sebastien Foucan, in the opening chase scene, proving that this film really has it's finger on the pulse of popular culture - I've loved watching all the Parkour films, since I first discovered them on their website about 5 years ago.

Was I also imagining style references to CSI?...I mean the flow, style of the storyline - it was almost a murder mystery with twists etc.

The baddies were bad, but where they really bad, or just the "intermediately" bad? The goodies were good, or were they?

It really got me guessing, and I was on the edge of my seat most of the film, but...

**there's always a but**

The problem with Bond films, and this one in particular, I come out of the cinema and I strut, I get all "bad-ass" and the "dark-side" of my personality comes out, I stop taking shit, and I become a bit distant and moody.

Laugh all you want - but I end up imagining I'm Bond.

This was all fairly embarrassing and I wouldn't have admitted it until Kate and Sam came home from seeing a later viewing...

Kate crawled through the back gate and jumped into the house singing the original Bond theme tune with her hands in a pistol shape, strutting around the house shooting Sam and I.

Sam then informed me she'd done that all the way home, hiding behind trees etc. He looked embarrassed to be seen with her

At least I didn't take it that far...


**Only spotted 7 product placements, I had been warned that it was a complete sell out to commercialisation, but I was happy to see Bond had my Sony Ericsson phone (although he had a groovy silver one...I WANT IT)**